OpenFaaS

Thank you for deploying OpenFaaS to Civo's k3s service.

Obtain access

The OpenFaaS gateway has been made available through a NodePort on port 31112 on each node.

  • Go to your Civo dashboard, click Kubernetes and then your OpenFaaS Cluster.

Look for the DNS entry that you find there, it may look something like 6c1c1646-25cf-44f0-9bd5-53ee35cd7c84.k8s.civo.com

This DNS record which points at each of the nodes in your cluster.

  • Set the following URL:
export DNS="" # As per dashboard
export OPENFAAS_URL=http://$DNS:31112

Get your kubeconfig

Pick A or B:

  • A) Get your kubeconfig via command-line

    civo k8s ls

civo k8s kubeconfig --save <CLUSTER_NAME>

kubectl config set-context <CLUSTER_NAME>

  • B) Get your kubeconfig via the Dashboard

    Download your kubeconfig file from the Civo dashboard.

    Now set the KUBECONFIG environment variable, so that you point at your new cluster:

    export KUBECONFIG=$HOME/Downloads/config-file.yaml

Find your generated password

You can find your password above and save it as password.txt.

Alternative, retrieve the password using kubectl:

echo $(kubectl get secret -n openfaas basic-auth -o jsonpath="{.data.basic-auth-password}" | base64 --decode; echo) > password.txt

Use the CLI to log in

Now install the faas-cli and log in:

cat password.txt | faas-cli login --username admin --password-stdin

Deploy a test function

faas-cli store list

# Find one you like

faas-cli store deploy nodeinfo

# List your functions

faas-cli list --verbose

# Check when the function is ready

faas-cli describe nodeinfo

Name:                nodeinfo
Status:              Ready

# Invoke the function using the URL given above, or via `faas-cli invoke`

echo | faas-cli invoke nodeinfo
echo -n "verbose" | faas-cli invoke nodeinfo

Access the OpenFaaS Gateway UI

You can now use the DNS entry you found earlier in a web-browser to access your dashboard.

echo $OPENFAAS_URL

Next steps